I want to recommend Midtown Place; I really do. Yet I cannot.

I lived in their St. Regis building for a year and a half, and I enjoyed many things about it: the old-building charm, the sunroom, the gargantuan closet space, the price, the location, etc.

I did not even find the issues that most people gripe about to be that bad, like the RUBS bill, the dirty laundry room, the management, etc. (Yes, the RUBS bill became expensive in the winter no matter how little I used my heat--the max I paid was around $150 on top of an MLGW utility bill--but I knew about this RUBS situation going into the lease.)

Nonetheless, I do not recommend you live in St. Regis, or any other property owned by Makowsky, Ringel, Greenberg LLC.

The company demonstrated clear mismanagement of the St. Regis property, especially its roof, and I have no intention of finding out how MRG manages and maintains its other properties.

Not only did it take 8 months for them to have a leak repaired in my bedroom (from water pooling on the roof), after another few months, the roof started failing completely.

Here is what I mean. The roof started caving in: the ceiling sagged in multiple places, filthy water dripped, and plaster and other debris like rotten moldy wood fell from the ceiling. My apartment (and my neighbor s) quickly became an unlivable and dangerous situation.

For the company to allow the roof to fall into such disrepair, after months of telltale signs, was bad business and flat-out unacceptable.

P.S. Here is another sad part about St. Regis: many of its beautiful old windows have also fallen into disrepair.

Moreover, if there are storm windows covering them, watch out. Some of these storm windows are hanging by a thread. My same neighbor and I repeatedly asked the management to do something about a storm window that had come unattached in multiple places above the stairwell that we had to walk up and down everyday. When the wind blew hard, this storm window would flap back and forth against the building, and it seemed like only a matter of time before it was going to fall. I just hope it does not fall off and hurt somebody. My guess is that new storm windows were not in the building's budget, but at least they could have attached this sketchy one more securely or just taken it down.

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